page_title: Peniki
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Peniki / History
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Деревня Пеники на карте 1885 года.
context_page_description: Peniki is a rural locality in Lomonosovsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is a part and the administrative center of Penikovskoye Rural Settlement.
context_section_description: Thus, the territory of the Lomonosov district of the Leningrad region (including the territory of the modern Peniki) was the property of Sweden. It was the historical region of Ingria in the period of 1617–1721. Then the territory was returned to Russian Empire.
  The village of Peniki is marked on the Semi-topographical map of 1810.
  On the “Topographic Map of the Neighborhoods of Saint Petersburg” of the Military Topographic Depot of the General Staff of 1817, the village of Peniki is mentioned. It further provides that in Peniki were 16 households.
  The village of Peniki with 16 households is also mentioned on the “Topographical map of the environs of St. Petersburg” by Friedrich von Schubert in 1831:
  Peniki is a village which belongs to the Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, the number of inhabitants by the revision: 44 males, 48 females (1838 year).
  As indicated in the explanatory text to the ethnographic map of Saint Petersburg Governorate by P. I. Köppen of 1849, it is recorded as the village of Penikkala (Penniki, Peniki) and indicates the number of its inhabitants for 1848: Ingrians-Äyrämöisets – 11 m., 15 f., Ingrians-Savonians – 16 m., 17 f., Izhorians – 32 m., 33 f., total population is 124 people.
  In 1860, the village of Peniki had 25 households.
  On the map of 1863 the village is marked as Penniki, but on the map drawn in 1925, the name Peniki started being used.
  By 1913 the number of households increased to 35.
  According to the topographic map of 1939, the village had 70 households.
  By ethnic nationality, the overwhelming majority of the village population after the year 1942, were Russians. The indigenous population – Izhorians and Ingrians - were deported and repressed by Stalin. Presently, however, they are fully assimilated in Russian society.
caption: The village of Peniki on the map of 1885.
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